CUMULATIVE YIELDS OF LIGHT FRAGMENTS IN U235 THERMAL NEUTRON FISSION

Abstract

A mass spectrometric study of the relative yields of the strontium, yttrium, zirconium, and molybdenum isotopes formed in the thermal neutron fission of U²³⁵ has made possible a detailed examination of structure of the light mass region of the mass–yield curve. The relative yields of this work have been normalized to 5.77% for Sr⁹⁰, and when literature and extrapolated values are taken for the remaining chains, the fission yields total 100.8%.